6 Epidemics That Changed HistoryHow it changed history: Not all diseases that affect humanity are human diseases: The livestock infection rinderpest led to war, colonialism, and a permanent change of life for much of Africa.01/28/2019 - 6:28 am | View Link

People tend to have strong opinions about nuclear power. Meet a few who changed their minds.After weighing every study on the subject, teams of scientist have predicted that warming of 1.5 degrees C (2.4 degrees F) above pre-industrial levels would bake 1.5 billion people in life-threatening ...01/21/2019 - 11:04 pm | View Link

‘Everything Has Changed’: Survivors of Las Vegas Shooting That Left 58 Dead Reflect a Year LaterThe Las Vegas massacre claimed 58 lives, making it the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history. Hundreds more were shot ... Seconds later, the speakers shut off and concertgoers began falling to th...09/27/2018 - 8:26 am | View Link

Golf’s present and past tell how Tiger’s ‘97 Masters changed everythingI think in the history of time we’ll look back on that week ... seeing Woods on the range after the roller-coaster opening-round 70 that began with a 40 on the front nine and ended with a 30 on the ba...04/1/2017 - 7:41 pm | View Link

How One Earthquake Changed the Course of Human HistoryThe first global empire, Portugal's mastery of the seas began in earnest in the 1400s ... "What a game of chance human life is!" Voltaire wrote. "[Lisbon] ought to teach men not to persecute men: for, ...09/6/2016 - 2:02 pm | View Link

Egypt | History, Map, Flag, Population, & Facts ...Egypt eventually became one of the intellectual and cultural centres of the Arab and Islamic world, a status that was fortified in the mid-13th century when Mongol armies sacked Baghdad and ended the ʿAbbāsid caliphate. The Mamlūk sultans of Egypt, under whom the country thrived for several centuries, established a pseudo-caliphate of dubious legitimacy.02/19/2019 - 9:18 am | View Website

History of nuclear weaponsNuclear weapons possess enormous destructive power from nuclear fission or combined fission and fusion reactions. Building on scientific breakthroughs made during the 1930s, the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada collaborated during World War II, in what was called the Manhattan Project, to counter the suspected Nazi German atomic bomb project.02/19/2019 - 8:28 am | View Website

The End of History?IN WATCHING the flow of events over the past decade or so, it is hard to avoid the feeling that something very fundamental has happened in world history.02/19/2019 - 6:41 am | View Website

History of EarthEons. In geochronology, time is generally measured in mya (megayears or million years), each unit representing the period of approximately 1,000,000 years in the past. The history of Earth is divided into four great eons, starting 4,540 mya with the formation of the planet.Each eon saw the most significant changes in Earth's composition, climate and life.02/17/2019 - 3:54 pm | View Website

Venezuelan soldiers killed a woman near the Brazilian border Friday as a group from the indigenous Pemon community tried to stop a convoy that was sealing the international crossing against humanitarian-aid shipments. Community members stopped anti-riot troops and their vehicles as they tried to

A Manhattan woman gave a creep the jolt of his life this week when she chucked a cup of coffee at him when he tried to rape her in the hallway of her building, cops said. The stranger followed the 51-year-old woman as she walked into the building at Seaman Avenue and Academy Street around